• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.27 no.5
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• pp.475-484
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• 2003

The objectives of this study were to investigate the consumers' general perceptions and attitudes in response to the leaflet fashion advertisements, and to examine how much differently the level of price and the advertisement type affect brand images and consumers' buying intentions. Subjects for this study were 192 female university students in the twenties. Through the pre-test, several casual brands with such various the level of price as high, middle. and low were selected. Stimuli consisted of 8 photographs of the advertisements types which were manipulated according to the price level(highㆍmiddle & low) and the advertisements type(generalㆍleaflet). The results showed that consumers got the information on the fashion products mostly from the advertisements in magazines. It was also found that consumers showed the highest interests on the design and the discount rate of prices in the leaflet fashion advertisements. The price range(highㆍmiddle & low) of casual brands had significantly affected on the brand image and the consumers' buying intention. And the higher the prices of casual brands were, the worse brand images were when products were advertised by fashion leaflets. The advertisements types(generalㆍleaflet) gave some influences only on the brand image. Based on these results, marketing strategies of fashion advertising would be ,suggested.